The authors use a first-of-its-kind approach to show that the increased cultivation of legumes would deliver higher nutritional value at lower environmental and resource costs.

Scientific classifications of forest vegetation on the territory of the former USSR, including the Republic of Tatarstan, previously used the dominant approach, traditional for northern countries, taking into account the dominance degree of one or another species in the main tree layer, or similarity in the composition of subordinate layers with the identification of cycles and series of associations.

African waters have been contributing to the global supply of fish for years, with three of the four most productive marine ecosystems in the world near the continent.

The Serengeti plain of East Africa is one of the world’s great wild lands — teeming with lions, leopards and migrating wildebeest.

In light of declining natural forests, tree plantations may seem like a good way to replace forest habitats.

New studies from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) shed more light on the economic and environmental costs of mandates in the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), a federal program to expand the nation’s biofuels sector.

How Earth observation technologies are revolutionizing global agri-food systems.

Researchers are using ICESat-2 elevation data to create bathymetry maps of shallow lakes in the remote desert.

Many farmers in northeastern China and eastern Russia use fire to clear fields and get them ready for planting.

Researchers say cultivated seaweed can soak up excess nutrients plaguing human health and marine life.